Re: Linked Axes: I need to extract xtics positions.

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Daniel Farrell wrote:

> I'm trying to experiment with 'linked axes' in gnuplot. Rather than
> delving straight into the code (right away) I first want to test a few
> things by making a 'linked axes' simple script that controls gnuplot. To
> make it work, I need to know the positions at which gnuplot will (or has
> chosen to) place tics marks on the x1 axis. Is is possible to extract
> this data using gnuplot?

Just make a plot :-)

> Alternatively a more general approach: is there a command line function
> were I can pass in a column of data (text file) upon which it will
> return the location of where gnuplot with place tic marks? Would such a
> funciton be simple for anyone here to quickly pull together. It would
> take me quite a while to get use to the gnuplot code base to do so.

Your timing is somewhat awkward.  We just (finally) entered a release 
cycle.  We really don't have time to spend on new features right now.


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